Permanent wave meter



July 28, 1936.

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Patented July 28, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFlcE- 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a permanent wave meter, the general object of the invention being to provide a gauge for accurately determining the size of the Waves to be produced by the spiral 5 type of permanent wave operation, whereby the waves will be of uniform size or of the required size.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination l and arrangement of several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, ref- 15 erence will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:-

Figure 1 is an elevation of the device with 20 parts broken away and looking toward one side thereof.

Figure 2 is a similar view but looking toward the other side.

Figure 3 is a View looking toward one side 25 edge of the device.

Figure 4 is a View looking toward one end of the device.

In this drawing the device is shown consisting of two members A and B, each member in- 30 eluding an eye forming part I, a shank 2 and a hook forming end 3. The member A is formed of two thicknesses of material which are spaced apart at the shank portion so that the shank of the other member can pass between them 35 and the two thicknesses are also spaced apart at the hook portion of the part 3 as shown at 3 so that the hook 3" of the member B will pass into the space. The eye part I of the member A has a pair of spaced prongs 4 extending substan- 40 tially at right angles therefrom and the eye part of the member B is provided with an outwardly extending part 5 for passing between the prongs. The hook portions when closed or partly closed form a substantially circular opening 45 for the passage of the hair and the recesses 6 formed by the other ends of the two members also form a substantially circular space to receive a rod with the hair wrapped thereon. The prong 3" on one face thereof carries the data 50 C, meaning coarse, MC meaning medium coarse, M meaning medium, MIE meaning medium fine, F meaning fine and VF meaning very fine. On the other face of this hook part 3" are the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 as shown in Figure 1.

55 On the projection 5 at one face thereof is the indicia indicating small, medium, wide and very wide, indicating whether the waves are to be medium, wide, very Wide, or small and the opposite face carries the same indicia.

In using the device a strand of the hair is 5 taken and measured by the hook parts 3 and 3 and this strand is measured according to whether the hair is coarse or fine or medium coarse, or medium fine or very fine and if it is of medium texture, for instance, the operator 10 notices that the letter on the part 3" indicating medium is opposite the nurneral 3 on the other face of the part 3" as shown in Figure 1.- The hair is then wound upon' a rod, and if Wound in the normal spiral way the outside measurement, shown by measuring with the opening formed by the recesses 6 on the other part of the device, will cause the extremity of the prongs 4 to register with the word medium on part 5 and which in turn will produce a medium wave. Therefore, by winding the hair of this same instance registering 3 on part 3" more closely over the rod the extremity of prongs 4 will be caused to register small on part 5 which indicates that the wave will be smaller and also in the same instance if a strand of hair is taken to correspond to 3 on part 3" and this strand is wound either lap or band wound as to increase thickness around the rod the prong 4 will be caused to register either wide or very wide on part 5 which will indicate in turn that the wave will be either a wide or very wide' wave.

As before stated this device will remove guess work on the part of the operator as to how much hair should be used for each wave and by making a record for each customer the operator can use this record so that each permanent wave given the customer will be similar to that previously given the customer.

It is thought from the foregoing description 40 that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood thatchanges may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim. 7

What is claimed is:

A permanent wave meter comprising a. pair of members, each including a shank, a hook at one end. of the shank and an eye at the other end, and a projection on the eye, one member being formed of double thickness of material, the two thicknesses of material being spaced apart at the shank, portions of the hook, portions of the eye and at the projection, the shank of the other member passing through the space of the shank of the first member and the two shanks being pivotally connected together in-.

,termediate their ends, the hook of said other miember passing into the spaced formed by the hook of the first member and the projectionof 'said other member passing into the space of the projection of the first member, portions of the hooks and shanks forming a substantially cir- V cula'r openingwhen the hooks overlap and portions of the shanks, the eyes, and the projec- 2,048,666 V s i i 7 V tions forming a substantially circularlopening when the projection overlaps, one projection and the hook of single thickness, each having indicia thereon and. the projection and the hook of the double thickness member acting as pointers for said iridicia, the indicia of ithe'hook inf dicating'the amount of hair to be used in a strand in accordance withthe texture of the hair and the indicia on the projection indicating how the strand is to be wound on a rod to pro- 10 duce curls of desire'd diametersQ VGEORGE BEIL. 

